uncleentropy's Comments (249)

“Yeah, right...people who are virulently opposed to gay marriage are going to fall all over themselves championing the cause if only "The Gay" will call the same thing something else.

Homosexual union cannot be looked at the same by society unless the same term or concept signifies it. Why say gays are hijacking it? Maybe they want their unions to be seen as the same because they respect the institution of "marriage" and its place and worth in society.

If straight people continue to abuse the institution, it won't be worth much to anyone.”

“You got your first fan for making this extremely important point.

Like too many things in life, we like looking at the grisly outcome and avoid looking at the cause. I know that I have been much able to cope with the schizophrenia in my own family by understanding better what they can and cannot control.

We don't know if he was pushed to take antipsychotics or if he was willfully non-compliant, but we do know too many people out there don't want to know.....anything about schizophrenia.”

“Well....we lie about se.x alot...especially to ourselves. The biggest lie we tell ourselves is that s.ex doesn't really matter to us or our happiness all that much and that we are going to just love having it with one person for the rest of our lives.

That might be best for us and for society, but a lot of folks are kidding themselves when they take the vow of marriage that they will like this arrangement. That is why Tiger risked everything....The wash of his self-brainwashing finally began to peel off. He "acted out" unjustifiably but understandably against the lie he had tried to believe. And no, he should not be condemmed for it because society has given us the brush and the bucket.”

“Politicians Sanford, Ensign and Vitter institutionalize their hypocrisy by supporting public policies like denying rights to homosexuals that are based on values that they rankly abuse.

Nothing Woods does is even close to that, although you are correct on the "cultivating the false image" charge. Like the first paragraph, too.”

“If it is, then I am with you...

I see some things that we are morally obligated to try to do there that are not dependent on Karzai.”

“I am a big fan of Arianna, but the introduction of more US troops does not mean per se that Obama is imitating his predecessor in Afghanistan.

Even if one opposes adding more military, he or she must admit that any military we add could do better and more constructive things there. We made no real effort to train Afghan security forces when Bush was prosecuting this war. We made no effort to negotiate with the Taliban or try to peel any of these people off. We know we have population centers that do not want the Taliban to take over and face a real possibility that this will happen if we just leave. We broke it (even more than it was broken) so temporarily we own it. There is no doubt that we have to stop doing what we have been doing.

We need to hear President Obama out on this and see if he has an exit strategy that is coupled with any buildup of troops, an exit strategy that is based meeting acheivable goals and not on wishful thinking about Karzai.”

“I don't think we can let any bank or investment house securitize the mortgage debt obligations and sell them. We can make underwriting standards as strict as we want to, but if given the chance to sell off the risk, lenders will sign up lots of unqualified people for mortgages. They will find a way around the standards because it means so much money to them.

Perhaps no one has an appetite for mortgage-back derivatives now, but we need to bury that idea. If the return of GS would not do that, then I want more....call it "Glass Plus" we we segregate banking and investment AND we severly restrict debt commoditization.”

“I think the problem with a modest increase in forces is that means we are doing "partial" counterinsurgency and "partial" training of Afghan security....and those cannot be done half-way any more than pregnancy.

This is the problem that Obama confronts. I don't blame him one minute for taking his time. If he wants to do counterinsurgency in the population centers, he probably has to add a lot more forces and he can't establish an endgame or exit strategy, since everyone knows that all the Taliban has to do is wait us out.

It is hard to sell training security forces who represent a govt. that has little legitimacy Still, I think I would go with this option ONLY, sending enough soldiers to train the army, pulling out forces from the remote regions and leaving when the army is strong enough no matter who is in power.

It is the lest sucky of the sucky options....”

“What is mindless is the suggestion that all the stimulus has been spent. The 30,000 number is incorrect and is really incorrect when tied to the full amount, which will not be spent for a couple.

You want no govt stimulus and no medicare....let the market correct itself? Vote Hoover 2012.”

“Capitalism cannot survive by itself. We have just seen that capitalism does not work unfettered even in the one place where you might expect success: the capital markets. It failed here spectacularly and survives only in a highly "ironic" form, as you point out.

Capitalism will live and die and live and die until we recognize that it must be regulated so that wealth is not concentrated in the hands of the few. We also have to recognize that a mixed economy is a necessary evil because private industry is insufficiently capitalized to fund many of the essential services that an operating free market economy needs. We are coming to that unavoidable conclusion about health care insurance now.”

“The Dems did not have the National Intelligence Estimate 2002...which is the compilation reports of all the intelligence gathering agencies. It casts a high level of suspicion on the idea that Saddam had WMD.

The White House gave them a totally non-credible "curveball" and phony reports on a nuclear program. I guess we can blame them for believing what was given to them....I am OK with that, but it is nonsense to suggest that the Congress had the same level of intel that the WH had.”

“Freddie and Fannie stoked the artificial housing market by trading in the derivatives....but the mortagages FMs backed were not the reason for the housing collapse. The non-bank lenders securitized lousy mortgages that they never whould have written and sold off the risk. They failed in their obligation to do risk assessment and were allowed to sell highly leveraged contracts. Bush's SEC cheered from the sidelines.This is a failure of unregulated free market capitalism.....not Barney Frank or Chris Dodd.

The republicans grandstanded about CRA loans, which did not cause the subprime mortagage meltdown (CRA-back loans are NOT subprimes). They did nothing to rein in the non-bank financial lenders, who went searching for capital after Freddie and Fannie stopped playing the game a few years ago.”

“Bless you, redneck....I don't understand how anyone could argue that CRA-sponsored loans caused this.

The practice of securitizing debt and removing the risk from the lender is the major culprit. How else to explain the collapse in the capital markets with a foreclosure rate that is still only about 25% of the rate during the Great Depression. The answer? Credit default swaps.”

“perhaps.....but coulter points out that was before he founded ACORN and moveon.org”

“You are right not to "shake that feeling" about OBL, not only for the reasons you gave but for the fact that killing him would likely destablize his homeland and W's favorite country, Saudia Ara.bia.”

“sweet, ugly.....no juneau interruptus”

“Extremely safe sex since Disney neglected to draw reproductive organs....they aren't called dwarfs just because they are short.”

“Hey, I'm from Tennessee, too. Are you really startled?

There is still a boatload of folks complaining about gubmint while sitting on their porch in the shadow of the TVA plant, siiping hooch, whittlin a stick and wondering "how mah ovah-alls get stuck up in that tree?"”

“Glenn's tears are of private joy for making money off of you.”

“Every one of your posts implicitly argues that taxes do all kinds of things to "influence behavior," so who is dreaming wet here.

Here is the bottom line: for eight years we had the lowest income tax rates on the wealthiest Americans since the 1920s and extremely low cap gains taxes. We have seen a reduction in the inflation-adjusted median wage, a massive addition to the federal debt (so much for revenue producing tax cuts) and no jobs.”

“McCain cannot prove that he wasn't born in Kenya because occasionally he is from there. GOP convention will be broadcast from phone booth via warrantless wiretap.”

“Wait lists are much shorter in Tennessee because the state has probably the best ratio of transplant capable hospitals (3) to needy patients. It is also for this reason that Jobs did not "deny" someone facing imminent death an organ. In theory, perhaps, but not in reality

You don't need residency status to be on the list....but you need to have the ability to remain close to the hospital where the procedure takes place for some time. Yes, he can afford to move and live there temporarily unlike many others, but that does not mean that he "line jumped" in any way.

One poster makes an excellent point about transplants not being palliative treatment, but at least we can see that this is a serious decision and not an easy one.

The Exile article should be placed in the "Birther" bin....it is wrong through and through.”

“That will get the country moving again. It is the Congressional Ultimate Fighting Championship!”

“orange water....but nice call!”

“They should not waste the crisis they created.”